CSCI 5150 - Topics in Distributed Systems

(3 credits)

Prerequisites: CSCI-4727 or CSCI 5727 or consent of the instructor. Also recommend: programming experience in C/C++, and a prior course in networking and data communications. Issues in the design and implementation of distributed systems. Topics include the importance of distributed systems; salient features of distributed systems architectures; characteristics of distributed computations; mechanisms for activating computations, message-passing, synchronization, and scheduling in distributed systems; distributed file systems; distributed shared memory; cooperation and consensus; fault tolerance; and replicated data management. (fall, alternate years)

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